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Turkish dissident journalist on Sakharov Prize list

Award-winning Turkish journalist Can Dundar, a long-time critic of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is among the finalists for the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize. He was recently sentenced to almost six years in jail for revealing state secrets and is thought to have left the country. Others on the list include Tatar leader Mustafa Dzemilev, and Yazidi survivors of Islamic State attacks. The winner will be selected on 27 October.

Opinion

Two years on from the highly-controversial EU-Turkey deal, many thousands of refugees are still trapped on Greek islands. One of them offers an open invitation to EU leaders to see their inhospitable conditions at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos.

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The controversy over the new EU Commission top civil servant is revealing of what is wrong with EU institutions and how they are blocked by national governments, says award-winning Austrian novelist Robert Menasse.